Greg and I spent a long weekend visiting our friends, Jessica and Evan, in Alexandria, Virginia. I kept saying that they lived in Washington, DC, but it is actually Alexandria. Jessica's family lived next door to ours growing up so we have been best friends since the day Jessica was born creating all of our childhood memories together. Dr. Jessica and her husband, Dr. Evan, both graduated from St. Louis College of Pharmacy and she is completing a residency, while Evan is completing a fellowship in the Alexandria area. Yes, they are both doctors, and it's weird saying that, but they have both worked so hard to get that title.
We didn't care to see much of the monuments in Washington DC; we were really there to see them and do what they do on a regular weekend. On Friday, Jessica and Evan worked so Greg and I went to the Washington DC Zoo. It was quite the trip to get there. We drove into the city, and then took the Metro up to Washington DC. The Metro stations were so much nicer than those in New York. Very open and might I say, a bit cleaner... We rode down and up a gigantic escalator, which later Evan informed me was the 3rd longest, continuous escalator in the world. And no Greg wouldn't just let me ride it down and up, he made me keep moving while we were on there. I was very out of breath when we got to the top, but others were impressed with our athletic abilities, they were just too afraid to complement us.
The entire day was a little foggy with low lying clouds, and by the time we finally got to the zoo it decided to rain on and off. Jessica and Evan warned us that the zoo was very spread out and not many animals were out when they went, and we had the same experience.
Like us, Jessica and Evan are lovers of wine so we headed further West into Virginia on Saturday to visit a couple of wineries. Jessica read a blog for the best winter wineries in Virginia that mentioned some that had fireplaces; however, it was sunny and in the mid 60's on Saturday, so it was nice to sit outside and enjoy the sun. The Appalachian Mountains were beautiful! We tasted wine at the first place and got a bottle to split at the other two wineries. The first winery was Naked Mountain Vineyard & Winery. They had a really good Chardonnay and my new favorite, a Cabernet Franc. We didn't stick around too long and headed to Delaplane Cellars and purchased a Syrah. This place had a large windows overlooking the vineyards. We were able to sit outside in the sun and play some games. The third winery was La Grange, which is known to be haunted, but we only experienced the haunting of what we thought was "stink" bugs which were crawling on the window behind us as we drank our wine and 2 of them decided to follow us home. We bought a Cabernet Franc at this winery. Evan was nice enough to drive us home, while the rest of us took a nap.
On Sunday, we went to a coffee shop and spent some time on our computers and walked around to some of the shops in downtown Alexandria. On Sunday, we ended up in the same area going to a good BBQ place and a Crate & Barrel Outlet store. Jessica wanted to take us to one of her favorite happy hour places there, but it was closed, so we headed straight into the city to go to a bar that Greg found that had trivia. We had so much time to kill that we went to another coffee shop in between.
It was really nice seeing the both of them and a nice start to our year.
We didn't care to see much of the monuments in Washington DC; we were really there to see them and do what they do on a regular weekend. On Friday, Jessica and Evan worked so Greg and I went to the Washington DC Zoo. It was quite the trip to get there. We drove into the city, and then took the Metro up to Washington DC. The Metro stations were so much nicer than those in New York. Very open and might I say, a bit cleaner... We rode down and up a gigantic escalator, which later Evan informed me was the 3rd longest, continuous escalator in the world. And no Greg wouldn't just let me ride it down and up, he made me keep moving while we were on there. I was very out of breath when we got to the top, but others were impressed with our athletic abilities, they were just too afraid to complement us.
Like us, Jessica and Evan are lovers of wine so we headed further West into Virginia on Saturday to visit a couple of wineries. Jessica read a blog for the best winter wineries in Virginia that mentioned some that had fireplaces; however, it was sunny and in the mid 60's on Saturday, so it was nice to sit outside and enjoy the sun. The Appalachian Mountains were beautiful! We tasted wine at the first place and got a bottle to split at the other two wineries. The first winery was Naked Mountain Vineyard & Winery. They had a really good Chardonnay and my new favorite, a Cabernet Franc. We didn't stick around too long and headed to Delaplane Cellars and purchased a Syrah. This place had a large windows overlooking the vineyards. We were able to sit outside in the sun and play some games. The third winery was La Grange, which is known to be haunted, but we only experienced the haunting of what we thought was "stink" bugs which were crawling on the window behind us as we drank our wine and 2 of them decided to follow us home. We bought a Cabernet Franc at this winery. Evan was nice enough to drive us home, while the rest of us took a nap.
On Sunday, we went to a coffee shop and spent some time on our computers and walked around to some of the shops in downtown Alexandria. On Sunday, we ended up in the same area going to a good BBQ place and a Crate & Barrel Outlet store. Jessica wanted to take us to one of her favorite happy hour places there, but it was closed, so we headed straight into the city to go to a bar that Greg found that had trivia. We had so much time to kill that we went to another coffee shop in between.
We got third to last place in trivia, but I thought we did pretty well considering we were probably the youngest in the bar.
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